Gwyneth Paltrow is reflecting on her parents’ marriage.
In honor of the first night of Hanukkah on Wednesday, the Goop founder, 52, lit the candles with Noa Tishby in a video posted to YouTube.
In the clip, Paltrow revealed that it was a journey for her mother, Blythe Danner, and late father, Bruce Paltrow, to be accepted as a couple by their loved ones.
“My mother’s Christian, my father’s Jewish,” the actress explained. “It’s interesting — I grew up in a time in the ’70s where interfaith marriage was still kind of a big deal. And so it was really hard for both of my parents’ parents that they were marrying each other.”
“It was a bit scandalous. Nobody was happy about it,” Paltrow added. “They definitely grew to accept it later in life and kind of let go of all of that.”
Danner, 81, and Bruce married in 1969 and, along with the “Shallow Hal” star, the pair share son Jake Paltrow, 49.
Bruce and Blythe were married for more than 30 years before the producer’s death in 2002 at age 58 after a years-long battle with throat cancer.
Paltrow also touched on her own upbringing, telling Tishby, “I felt so fortunate because I got to grow up with these two very different worlds and very different faiths. I always felt an incredible pull to my Jewish family — I still do. And just the traditions and the warmth and the unconditional love. And the food and the yelling and the family!”
The Oscar winner, who shares kids Apple, 20, and Moses, 18, with ex-husband Chris Martin, noted, “I’m so close to everybody on that side of my family.”
“We’re all kind of interwoven and so important to each other and just show up for each other again and again and again,” she continued. “I came to find out that we are from 17 generations of rabbis.”
Paltrow reflected on one particular memory about celebrating Hanukkah as a child.
“My most favorite is when I go back to being at my grandparents’ house on Long Island and getting the Hanukkah gelt,” she said.
“I have such a strong memory of the gold round coins and my brother and I tearing into them,” she told Tishby with a smile.
In October, the mom-of-two touched on being an empty nester after Apple and Moses both left for college.
“It’s very different,” Paltrow said in a video shared on her Instagram Story at the time. “I have waves of grief and sadness.”
However, it gives the Marvel star time to focus on herself.
“I am kind of getting back in touch with this part of myself that I haven’t felt like since I was in my 20s before I had kids,” Paltrow revealed. “Like, a little more space and imagination, maybe. A little more inner space for what I might want to do that day, stuff like that.”
And when it comes to Apple and Moses, the entrepreneur explained in a video from July, “My kids both really know themselves very well and that’s a trait about them that I both love and admire.”
